Newly graduated from Tuskegee, Civil Townsend takes on her first job as a nurse at the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic in 1973. She’s ready to help the women in her community, but her very first case tests her in a way that will haunt her for decades to come. “Take My Hand” by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is engrossing from the start.
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